Motor Quotes - Page 9

• Ford Motor Company's sluggish and piecemeal approach to its automotive responsibilities betrays motorists' safety.

  Ralph Nader

  Betrayal, Responsibility, Safety

  "Flaming Fords" by Michael Beckel, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2006.

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• I'm trying to engage issues of power and sexuality and money and life and death and power. Power is the most free-flowing element in society, maybe next to money, but in fact they both motor each other.

  Barbara Kruger

  Power, Issues, Life And Death

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• General Motors has no bad years, only good years and better years.

  Harlow Curtice

  Years, General Motors, Good Years

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• Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence.

  Nikola Tesla

  Odds, Secret, Lightning

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• When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh air, and high speed motor cars and television, all the animation - a world apart from a little square of canvas that you smear paint on.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Real, Thinking, Squares

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• Legalize racing in every State. Sure people will bet, but they get to see the horses run and you certain can't see General Motors and General Electric and General Utility run when you bet on them.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Horse, People

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• As you can see, visually, with your eyes.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Eye, Motor Racing

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• Horsepower sells motorcars and torque wins motor races.

  Carroll Smith

  Winning, Race, Torque

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• Michael Schumacher is leading Michael Schumacher.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Schumacher

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• Jean Alesi is 4th and 5th.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Racing

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• Villeneuve is now twelve seconds ahead of Villeneuve.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Twelve

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• Frentzen is taking, er, reducing that gap between himself and Frentzen.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Gaps

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• Ferrari leads, McLaren second, McLaren second, Jordan third, and Benneton fifth and sixth.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Ferrari

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• Schumacher has made his final stop three times.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Finals

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• Mansell is slowing it down, taking it easy. Oh, no he isn't! It's a lap record.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Lap

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• And he's done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Done

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• You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Business, Years

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• Hey motor cycle mama, you gonna marry me?

  Jimi Hendrix

  Quality, Hey, Mama

  Song: Ezy Ryder, Album: The Cry of Love, 1971

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• The last thing I remember, I left with a girl on a motor bike that weighed 300 pounds.

  Rod Stewart

  Girl, Quality, Lasts

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• I'm drinking here break motor oil and Bombay gin, I'll sleep when I'm dead.

  Warren Zevon

  Drinking, Sleep, Oil

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• Children who played outside every day, regrdless of weather, had better motor coordination and more ability to concentrate.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Children, Weather

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• A couple of sounds that I really like are the sounds of a switchblade and a motor bike.

  Elton John

  Couple, Order, Law

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• I am very happy because motor racing is very important outside the states, very big all over the world.

  Emerson Fittipaldi

  Sports, Motor Racing, Important

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• My parents were not at all backstage parents. We had none of that in the family. It was just very clear right away that I was an actor, even from 4 years old. I've never waited a table. I taught some - I'll teach classes in improv or Shakespeare, but there's some motor in me that needs to do that.

  John Michael Higgins

  Years, Class, Parent

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. June 23, 2011.

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• My goal in coming to General Motors was to help restore profitability, build a strong market position and position this iconic company for success. We are clearly on that path.

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.

  Strong, Goal, Path

  "GM CEO To Step Down As Company Posts Profit". "All Things Considered" with Michele Norris, www.npr.org. August 12, 2010.

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